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Oregon’s pro-labor Republican lost her seat in the House. Now she’ll go to the Senate for a cabinet confirmation hearing.

Union contracts covering 1,300 City workers expire Dec. 31, on the eve of the city’s shift to a whole new leadership structure.

In the two-year budget she proposed on Dec. 2, Kotek is calling for a 30% increase for Oregon’s tiny labor law enforcement bureau.

The phased-in re-affiliation will boost Oregon's premier union federation by 30%. It also signifies greater labor unity.

This batch of layoffs is just the first. Boeing announced in October that it would lay off 17,000 employees, 10% of its global workforce.

American, Southwest, Alaska and United are mostly union; Delta and JetBlue, not so much. The Labor Press dug in to get the full picture.

International Union of Painters and Allied Trades’ Regional Training Center in Portland honors a new class of graduating journeymen.

The new contract gives Bakers Local 114 members an immediate $2.50 per hour raise, with $1 raises in years two and three.

Bigfoot Beverages has withdrawn recognition of Teamsters Local 324 and Local 206, terminated the contract, and halted pension contributions.

After a week-long strike — the first in the union’s history — Benton County workers represented by AFSCME Local 2064 ratified a new contract.

Members of the Greater Albany Education Association (GAEA) won smaller class sizes and a 7% cost-of-living raise.

SCRAP Creative Reuse is a nonprofit in Portland that sells low-cost art supplies and offers arts education.

Wisconsin's Act 10, which stripped public sector workers of union rights, was the subject of nationwide union protests when it passed in 2011.

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